They are all there for the same thing, to socialize with people of like minded interest as well as learn new techniques and attacks.

The ability to mingle with someone from the opposing side brings a great opportunity to learn how the others brain works.

Both the good guys and the bad guys get a chance to learn something new about their opponent.

Security Conferences

There are new conferences popping up all of the time.

They range in popularity from the mainstream conferences such as def con and blackhat, to the rare and obscure such as shmoocon and Notacon.

Some of the most well reviewed conferences to go to consist of Def con, Toorcon, Chaos Communication Conference, and for the more serious, business minded security professional, the Blackhat technical security conference.

All of these conferences, every year, have interesting presenters and will usually teach you something that you didn’t know before you went in.

The knowledge that these people have been gathering for one or more years, is all of the sudden released to the world at these conferences.

If you are in the computer security profession, you should try to visit at least one of these conferences this year.

You are sure to learn something new but the biggest benefit will be the amount of networking that you will be able to do.

That is something that people in the security community rarely get a chance to do.

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